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IBM Dual-Band 802.11a/b Wireless LAN Mini PCI adapter

... is the official name according to IBM webpages. The IBM FRU part number is 91P7263.

In Windows, hardwaremanager calls it Dual-band Wi-Fi Wireless Mini PCI Adapter and lists PHILIPS COMPONENTS as manufacturer. Of course, Philips is only an OEM and the card is indeed an Atheros made, as can be seen with lspci (PCI-ID: 168c:0012).

Running Knoppix 3.6 with kernel 2.4.27 it is automatically detected as can be seen from the kernel message ring puffer:

New generation MadWifi drivers create a base device called wifi0, wifi1, ... for the underlying
wifi hardware. The station interface (e.g. ath0) has to be created on top of it, either manually or
by scripts during system initialization.

Application Examples

For configuring wireless devices there are several tools available:
wlanconfig, iwconfig,iwpriv,iwlist, ...